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Re: GBlist: Sustainable Home In LAH, CA (fwd)




David: Further to the note of below, we would also add the Phoenix toilet
system. Our demonstration "sustainable home/office" was planned for 3
different and separate greywater systems:
1) slow sand filters
2) planter boxes
3) solar aquatics
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Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 08:48:37 -0600
From: Ed Hartnett <ejh@idcomm.com>
To: "David F. Lambertson" <dlambert@falcon.cc.ukans.edu>, SAMALEK@aol.com
Cc: greenbuilding@crest.org
Subject: Re: GBlist: Sustainable Home In LAH, CA
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> From: David F. Lambertson <dlambert@falcon.cc.ukans.edu>
>         Regarding the septic system.  If you want to keep those oaks,
don't
> even consider digging anywhere around their drip line.  The trees won't
die
> right away, but slowly over the next few years.  Does your community
allow a
> constructed wet land?   Maybe combined with a holding tank that would
need
> to be pumped during the cold months.  Knowing it worked well in Thailand,
we
> are researching the idea for our much-colder-than-your climate here in
> Kansas.   We are allowed to do "lagoons" here too but you have to have a
lot
> of land to get it far enough away from the house.  And of course there is
> the possibility of recycling grey water and using a composting toilet
system
> for the black, another angle we are considering.   
>         As we have no experience with any of the above (other than
killing
> trees) I'll be interested in other comments.


I'm going to be doing a compost toliet/ greywater system in my home that
I'll be building next year.

For composting toliets see websites for SunMar and Clivus Multhum. For
greywater reuse take a look at the websites for earthships.

Good luck!

Ed

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